Thursday, January 19

End of week quote

French President, Chirac has announced that France is prepared to use its nuclear weapons if any other state will threaten it with terrorist attacks. He did not specify which other state he may have had in mind.

As reported by the BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg and numerous other news agencies Chirac announced at L’Ile-Longue, a nuclear submarine base in Brittany that leaders of states, who“use terrorist means against us, just like anyone who would envisage using, in one way or another, arms of mass destruction, must understand that they would expose themselves to a firm and adapted response from us.”

These responses could be of conventional kind or of a “different kind”.